"Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
07/18/2017 at 08:17 • Filed to: None
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"Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
07/18/2017 at 08:17 • Filed to: None | 4
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One of my dogs made a new friend this morning. Now I have to burn the house down.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 08:24 |
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luckily for us they’re not around these parts.
Chariotoflove
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 08:25 |
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Doggo’s choice of friends stinks.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 08:28 |
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i mostly see those flattened on the side of the road. Damn they can stink.
shop-teacher
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 08:31 |
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At least you’ll have that shop to live in still.
PS9
> pip bip - choose Corrour
07/18/2017 at 08:59 |
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Yeah, all you have down there is murderous jumping spiders, murderous death adders, murderous jellyfish and even a murderous climate.
Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 09:26 |
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Worked at a bodyshop outside of Baltimore for a number of years, on the west side of the county, in Catonsville. We were right on Route 40, a nice, big, six lane divided road.
One hot summer morning, not unlike this morning, we came in to work and found a wounded skunk in a somewhat unused, isolated corner of the parking lot. It appeared to have been clipped by a vehicle, and crawled into our parking lot to make it’s peace with it’s maker. It wasn’t dead yet, but it sure as hell wasn’t healthy. I called the county animal control, and a number of wildlife rescue organizations asking if they did disposal, or had any advice. “Sucks for you” seemed to be the general consensus from the professionals. Great.
Throughout the course of the morning, I walked past the bastard a half dozen times. It hadn’t moved an inch. It’d look at you, but it couldn’t really do much more than that. I wanted to kill it, but didn’t really think the idea of letting off a .22 (if I could even round one up) in a rather densely populated business area right on the Baltimore City/County line would be well received (we had an impressive homicide rate at the time, think back to HBO’s the Wire era). I had no intentions of getting within spray distance to club the fucker to death, either. It was up against the wall so I couldn’t really run it over with a car (inhumane, I know, but I was running out of options beyond letting it cook to death in a scorching parking lot with no shade in July).
Got busy with work stuff as the day progressed, and found myself in a technicians bay (pretty close to the skunk) going over a heavily damaged car with a poorly written estimate. Halfway through the process of reviewing the car, the technician and I smelled the same thing, looked at one another, and simultaneously said “Well, it’s dead now.” We walked out the door towards where Peppy had been expiring, and noticed four or five doors on the backside of the strip mall next to us opening up, and confused/disgusted employee heads poking out as the smell overwhelmed the area. Meandered towards Peppy, and he was swollen up like a balloon, all four legs in the air, no longer moving his head towards his human visitors. RIP. My best guess is that whatever gland holds the spray cut loose when he died, and uncorked
all
of it at once. Sweet Jesus it was the worst smell I’d ever experienced. I’ve been around tire fires, punctured stomachs of animals being field dressed, and gear oil spills that would make the captain of the Exxon Valdez proud, and they all paled in comparison with this odor.
Well, shit. Now my concerns had changed gears from humane euthanization without getting sprayed to corpse disposal. Myself and the technician with the bays closest to ground zero were to be the body disposal team. I called my paint supplier and ordered two new hooded paint suits. John and I grabbed our respirators, a fresh pair of gloves each, and four office trash bags. Trash bags over feet, gloves on hands (obviously), then paint suit on and edges taped up. We decided one of us would pick him up with a shovel, and the other would hold the bag he was to be dumped into.
I lost the coin toss and got to be the bag man.
After our painter marked our fresh suits up with “Spaz Mat Response Team” sharpie lettering, we set about our grim task. John did a nice job getting it onto the shovel, and into the bag without dumping the corpse on me (I would’ve killed him). Now, we needed somewhere to dispose of our decomposing stink-bomb.
There was a vacant building a few hundred feet down the alley from our shop, that still had a dumpster sitting in the back lot. Without discussion, we looked at each other as I was knotting the bag shut, nodded, and marched down the alley to complete our task. The skunk, the paint suits, the respirator charcoal filters, gloves, tape, bags, the damn shovel, all of it went into that dumpster.
Good luck with the new home search!
Cé hé sin
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 10:12 |
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I think they’re cute. They’re skunks, aren’t they? Is it good that I live on a continent without them?
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Cé hé sin
> PS9
07/18/2017 at 10:17 |
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You forgot a few, or even a lot.
Saltwater crocodiles
Snakes (various)
Sharks
Box jellyfish
More snakes
Blue ringed octopus
More snakes
EL_ULY
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 10:20 |
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....pretty much. I see no other option. I’m on my 57th house and if I see another spider..... well, you know
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> Cé hé sin
07/18/2017 at 10:29 |
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yes, skunks. they are cute, but when their defensive move is to spray this oily mess out of glands by their asshole and it smells AWFUL.
The smell is like burned hair and sulfur and it permeates EVERYTHING. I’m told that getting the smell out of the house will take 3 days of ozone treatment so we have to evac the house for that time
vondon302
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 10:44 |
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Holy crap. I’ve been sprayed before but that’s a new level of nastiness.
The worst part for me was after a little while you could almost taste it. Ugh
good luck
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> vondon302
07/18/2017 at 11:00 |
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The dog’s move after being sprayed was to come into the house and try to rub the smell off on everything
Nibbles
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 11:02 |
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Put out bowls of white vinegar, they’ll help absorb the smell. Did the dog get sprayed?
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> Nibbles
07/18/2017 at 11:29 |
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He got sprayed, yes. Then he came into the house and wiped stank all over everything. He’s been cleaned up and is fine, now the house just needs to not smell horrible
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vondon302
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 11:29 |
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Oof so it was probably still fresh too. That’s an ugly situation. Our dogs and my pant leg got it years ago taking out the garbage. I Remember it like it was yesterday.
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Nibbles
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/18/2017 at 12:28 |
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A mixture of baking soda and vinegar (oxidant) and dish soap (surfactant) is a great blend for removing skunk smell from pets and fabrics